Parshat Ki Savo Issue of August 28, 2010/ 18 Elul, 5770 by Rabbi Avi Billet My grandmother gets "nachas" from reading this column. She told me a few times that one of the things she enjoys … more

The recession is not the only thing hurting Orthodox Jewish nonprofits. A lack of disclosure on their finances has resulted in a downgrade of ratings from a leading watchdog group. more

In commemoration of Hadassah’s upcoming centennial milestone, Long Beach’s Tziporah chapter held a “ Stories to Share, Recipes to Savor” event on Thursday, January 12. Coordinated by Program Vice President Carole Pearlman, and Co-Chair Maxine Klein, six women, who were born and raised in foreign countries spoke about the trials and tribulations in their native lands. These Hadassah members representative of Paraguay, Greece, Germany, Czechoslovakia, Scotland, and Cuba conveyed their stories in a group discussion and through recipes shared in a cookbook that was compiled and distributed as part of the centennial program. more

On any given day you can find Charlie Harary in a million different places doing a million different things with a million different people. more

Summer can be a time of relaxing or slacking off for some students, but for 33 high school age girls and boys on NCSY—OU’s Jewish Overseas Leadership Training (JOLT) program, it was a summer of action, roller-coaster like emotional highs and lows, and spiritual and leadership growth. more

Now that the election is over, Barack Obama no longer has to appeal to supporters of Israel or haters of terrorism. Progressive Jews no longer have to lie—calling him a great president for Israel. As he told Russian president Medvedev after the election, he will have more flexibility. more

The decision by Israel’s cabinet on Sunday to approve the release of 104 Palestinian prisoners who were convicted of committing terrorist acts prior to the Oslo Accords in 1993 was strongly criticized this week by a noted Five Towns educator. “On the surface, the idea of releasing yet more Palestinian terrorists with blood on their hands appears to be a foolish error,” Rabbi Yotav Eliach, principal of Rambam Mesivta High School in Lawrence and teacher at Rambam and Midreshet Shalhevet in Valley Stream told The Jewish Star. “Israel has been down this road before, and we all know that it ends badly.” more

A Coney Island synagogue lit a candle this Chanukah, not only to celebrate the Festival of Light, but to remember one of the darkest episodes of Jewish history. The Warbasse Jewish Heritage Congregation inaugurated its enormous new menorah and the beginning of the Jewish holiday on Nov. 27 with a special ceremony by a 96-year-old survivor of the Holocaust. Jack Eisenstein — who endured the horrors of the Auschwitz and Bergen-Belsen concentration camps — kindled the first festival lights on the 22-foot-high, 16-foot-wide candelabrum, displayed for the first time this year at the corner of Neptune Avenue and W. Fifth Street. more

It is a conversation I will remember forever. We were in the midst of basic tank training, enjoying a brief respite from the grueling pace of maneuvers and marches. more

Chabad of the Five Towns staged its annual welcome back barbecue on Labor Day. more